Raskolnikov's Crime and Punishment: Review of Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How confident are you that if you commit a crime you won't be caught? When does a crime become justifiable? Clearly some crimes, selectively, are even glorified. Look at your national heroes, the army, the political chauvinists who were ready to do anything to reach the top. Surely Napoleon is excused for killing 5..10.. or even hundreds for the feats he achieved. If so, let's say you know a guy who is certain to be a great man in the future, a girl who is bound to change the course of history itself, commits a crime. What extent of crime would you excuse? Would robbery be excusable? Would vandalism? Would rape? Would murder ? Such are the thoughts that trouble Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Considered as one of the first psychological thrillers , Crime and Punishment follows the story of Raskolnikov, a struggling law student living in extreme poverty. As the title hints upon, the story is about the heinous crime that Raskoln...